Humanities Translation Series: The Contradictions of the Welfare State

Author: (German) Klaus Otfried
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book begins by analyzing the connotations of concepts such as crisis, contradiction, efficiency, and the welfare state. Centered on the core argument that "capitalism cannot do without the welfare state, but capitalism cannot coexist with the welfare state," it profoundly elaborates on the various contradictions faced by the modern welfare state, such as commodification and de-commodification, planning and administrative rationality, welfare expenditures and fiscal crises, legitimacy and efficiency, and the separation of the substance and form of liberal democracy.